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| 1 | Microbial etiological agents of destructive periodontal diseases | Periodontology 2000 | 1994 | 1,372 |
| 2 | Periodontal microbial ecology | Periodontology 2000 | 2005 | 1,261 |
| 3 | Inflammatory and immune pathways in the pathogenesis of periodontal disease | Periodontology 2000 | 2014 | 930 |
| 4 | Dental biofilms: difficult therapeutic targets | Periodontology 2000 | 2002 | 925 |
| 5 | The bacteria of periodontal diseases | Periodontology 2000 | 1994 | 916 |
| 6 | Risk factors for periodontal disease | Periodontology 2000 | 2013 | 814 |
| 7 | Porphyromonas gingivalis, Treponema denticola, and Tannerella forsythia: the 'red complex', a prototype polybacterial pathogenic consortium in periodontitis | Periodontology 2000 | 2005 | 788 |
| 8 | Advances in the pathogenesis of periodontitis: summary of developments, clinical implications and future directions | Periodontology 2000 | 1997 | 771 |
| 9 | The pathogenesis of human periodontitis: an introduction | Periodontology 2000 | 1997 | 718 |
| 10 | The role of reactive oxygen and antioxidant species in periodontal tissue destruction | Periodontology 2000 | 2007 | 680 |
| 11 | The breadth of bacterial diversity in the human periodontal pocket and other oral sites | Periodontology 2000 | 2006 | 664 |
| 12 | Periodontitis: facts, fallacies and the future | Periodontology 2000 | 2017 | 642 |
| 13 | Bacterial interactions and successions during plaque development | Periodontology 2000 | 2006 | 594 |
| 14 | Virulence factors of Porphyromonas gingivalis | Periodontology 2000 | 1999 | 587 |
| 15 | Periodontal diagnoses and classification of periodontal diseases | Periodontology 2000 | 2004 | 583 |
| 16 | The global burden of periodontal disease: towards integration with chronic disease prevention and control | Periodontology 2000 | 2012 | 567 |
| 17 | The diagnosis and treatment of peri-implantitis | Periodontology 2000 | 1998 | 517 |
| 18 | Chlorhexidine: is it still the gold standard? | Periodontology 2000 | 1997 | 516 |
| 19 | The host response to the microbial challenge in periodontitis: assembling the players | Periodontology 2000 | 1997 | 508 |
| 20 | The microbial challenge in periodontitis | Periodontology 2000 | 1997 | 488 |
| 21 | Implant stability measurements using resonance frequency analysis: biological and biomechanical aspects and clinical implications | Periodontology 2000 | 2008 | 470 |
| 22 | Structure of periodontal tissues in health and disease* | Periodontology 2000 | 2006 | 454 |
| 23 | Molecular aspects of the pathogenesis of periodontitis | Periodontology 2000 | 2015 | 443 |
| 24 | The periodontal ligament: a unique, multifunctional connective tissue | Periodontology 2000 | 1997 | 439 |
| 25 | Modern implant dentistry based on osseointegration: 50 years of progress, current trends and open questions | Periodontology 2000 | 2017 | 426 |
| 26 | Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Porphyromonas gingivalis in human periodontal disease: occurrence and treatment | Periodontology 2000 | 1999 | 425 |
| 27 | Global risk factors and risk indicators for periodontal diseases | Periodontology 2000 | 2002 | 414 |
| 28 | Diabetes mellitus and periodontal disease | Periodontology 2000 | 2007 | 390 |
| 29 | Comparative biology of chronic and aggressive periodontitis vs. peri-implantitis | Periodontology 2000 | 2010 | 389 |
| 30 | The role of the microbiota in periodontal disease | Periodontology 2000 | 2020 | 382 |
| 31 | Osseointegration of titanium, titanium alloy and zirconia dental implants: current knowledge and open questions | Periodontology 2000 | 2017 | 381 |
| 32 | Periodontitis: a host‐mediated disruption of microbial homeostasis. Unlearning learned concepts | Periodontology 2000 | 2013 | 373 |
| 33 | Development of the biological concept of guided tissue regeneration ? animal and human studies | Periodontology 2000 | 1993 | 369 |
| 34 | Causation and pathogenesis of periodontal disease | Periodontology 2000 | 2001 | 366 |
| 35 | Lasers in nonsurgical periodontal therapy | Periodontology 2000 | 2004 | 366 |
| 36 | Tissue engineering: a new paradigm for periodontal regeneration based on molecular and cell biology | Periodontology 2000 | 2000 | 363 |
| 37 | Global epidemiology of periodontal diseases: an overview | Periodontology 2000 | 2002 | 362 |
| 38 | Biology and principles of periodontal wound healing/regeneration | Periodontology 2000 | 2006 | 357 |
| 39 | The physiology of salivary secretion | Periodontology 2000 | 2016 | 354 |
| 40 | Current state of the art of computer‐guided implant surgery | Periodontology 2000 | 2017 | 334 |
| 41 | Cytokines and prostaglandins in immune homeostasis and tissue destruction in periodontal disease | Periodontology 2000 | 1997 | 327 |
| 42 | Role of bacterial proteinases in matrix destruction and modulation of host responses | Periodontology 2000 | 2000 | 321 |
| 43 | Titanium ? the material of choice? | Periodontology 2000 | 1998 | 320 |
| 44 | Dental plaque biofilms: communities, conflict and control | Periodontology 2000 | 2011 | 320 |
| 45 | Horizontal bone augmentation by means of guided bone regeneration | Periodontology 2000 | 2014 | 318 |
| 46 | Basic biology and role of interleukin‐17 in immunity and inflammation | Periodontology 2000 | 2015 | 317 |
| 47 | Implant placement post extraction in esthetic single tooth sites: when immediate, when early, when late? | Periodontology 2000 | 2017 | 304 |
| 48 | Clinical and public health implications of periodontal and systemic diseases: An overview | Periodontology 2000 | 2020 | 304 |
| 49 | Dichotomy of gingipains action as virulence factors: from cleaving substrates with the precision of a surgeon’s knife to a meat chopper-like brutal degradation of proteins | Periodontology 2000 | 2010 | 297 |
| 50 | Alveolar socket healing: what can we learn? | Periodontology 2000 | 2015 | 297 |
